Valerian Fedorovich Pereverzev

Valerian Fedorovich Pereverzev (Russian: Валерьян Фёдорович Переверзев; 17 October 1882

Pereverzev was born in Bobrov (now Voronezh Oblast). He studied physics and mathematics at the University of Kharkov from 1901 to 1905 but was expelled and exiled to Narym for participating in revolutionary activities, being a member of RSDLP since 1905. In 1911 he returned to Moscow to study and lecture. After the October Revolution in 1917, Pereverzev worked as a teacher and scholar. In 1921 he became a professor at Moscow State University. His work examined the works of Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Ivan Goncharov. Pereverzev maintained that an author's style is determined by class milieu. He was a professor of the Institute of Red Professors and a member of the Communist Academy. Pereverzev was also a member of the editorial board of the Literary Encyclopedia.